tail(1) General Commands Manual tail(1)

tail - Print the last 10 lines of each FILE to standard output. With more than one FILE, precede each with a header giving the file name. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

Mandatory arguments to long flags are mandatory for short flags too.

tail [-c|--bytes] [-f|--follow] [-n|--lines] [--pid] [-q|--quiet] [-s|--sleep-interval] [--max-unchanged-stats] [-v|--verbose] [-z|--zero-terminated] [--use-polling] [--retry] [-F ] [-h|--help] [-V|--version] [files]

Print the last 10 lines of each FILE to standard output. With more than one FILE, precede each with a header giving the file name. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

Mandatory arguments to long flags are mandatory for short flags too.

Number of bytes to print
Print the file as it grows

[possible values: descriptor, name]

Number of lines to print
With -f, terminate after process ID, PID dies
Never output headers giving file names
Number of seconds to sleep between polling the file when running with -f
Reopen a FILE which has not changed size after N (default 5) iterations to see if it has been unlinked or renamed (this is the usual case of rotated log files); This option is meaningful only when polling (i.e., with --use-polling) and when --follow=name
Always output headers giving file names
Line delimiter is NUL, not newline
Disable 'inotify' support and use polling instead
Keep trying to open a file if it is inaccessible
Same as --follow=name --retry
Print help
Print version
[files]

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